Swifter, Higher, Stronger … Sooner? Throughout central Oklahoma, young athletes are training year-round with laserlike intensity on the goal of earning a spot among the absolute best in the world, and competing – with all the world watching – to bring home Olympic gold.

Masterful flights of culinary fancy to note-perfect renditions of time-honored classics; we’ve whipped up more than 20 recommendations as a guide to the Oklahoma City metro’s finest breakfasts. Tell your taste buds to rise and shine.

In her ongoing travels through the state, author and photographer M.J. Alexander muses on the history of abandoned agricultural equipment that has gone from taming the Great Plains landscape to becoming part of it.

Experimental art, theatrical classics, concerts, special events – there are all kinds of sources for entertainment and enlightenment in this bustling metro, so if you can’t make it to everything, here’s where to start.